TOEFL Integrated Question
Both the article and the lecture deal with the question whether if we should benefit from the resources of ocean floor. While the passage clearly states that this will result disastrous outcomes and have a huge impact on marine eco system, the lecturer discusses the points made in the passage and reaches a different conclusion in each time.
Firstly, according to the passage, taking advantage of the resources that are found in the ocean floor will cause a destruction on land, since we need to cover a lot of territory in order to find the minerals that we seek. However, the lecturer opposes this idea by saying that it is sufficient to get small samples from small areas to achieve our goal. Therefore, this would only affect a negligible amount of species as we could do this in the desert like parts of the ocean.
Secondly, the passage mentions that the excavation of the floor will make the settled dust and sand raise and pollute water, potentially bringing poisonous waste products to sea currents which can be spread drastically all over the globe. In contrast, the professor claims that the dust and poisons will not be spread far, and that we just need to stay 500 miles away from the sea creatures.
Finally, the lecturer points out a tendency of increased meat consumption, since the number of people is rising over time. Then, by implementing aquamarine agriculture in large scale in the desert parts of the ocean, it would allow the fish to have plenty of space to survive and the body waste would be diluted, not causing any damage to the quality of the meat.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, so, therefore, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 30.3222958057 33% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 836.0 1373.03311258 61% => OK
No of words: 161.0 270.72406181 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19254658385 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 4.04702891845 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64189171556 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 145.348785872 65% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.590062111801 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 261.9 419.366225166 62% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.4542281375 49.2860985944 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.428571429 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.85714285714 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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